Comments on: Coywolves; hybrid wolf-coyotes in New England?

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:48:13 +0000

It is true, have evidence in posession. If you look at the skull configutation of a true yote and compare it to that of a wolf, the evidence is clear. A skull collector friend has reference material that clearly defines a species by its bone structure and shows comparisons for similar species so that species is not mis identified. We have skulls from “coyote” shot in Maine. THe lobe area over and behind eye socket is very defined in a wolf and very shallow in a true yote. THese maine coyote skulls have a high defined lobe. I believe, much to the political contrary of Fish and Wildlife, that we have a brand of eastern wolf growing here in Maine. Very territorial and large packs exist here in Somerset county.

By: Ray T. Perreault

Ray T. Perreault — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:37:52 +0000

In South Louisiana, we have been having what we call coydogs for about 10 years. From what we have seen and killed, and otherwise observed, they are coyote/wolf/feral dog mixes. I have seen a former den, and collected tan hairs, and have seen a few of them. They are timid towards people, and prefer staying out of sight.

By: Christopher Guerra

Christopher Guerra — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:48:25 +0000

What about the Cougars that stalk me all the time *no thanks to my young looking face*

By: Monado, FCD

Monado, FCD — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:42:11 +0000

I’ve never heard of a Great Lakes wolf. I thought there were timber (grey) wolves and Arctic wolves and perhaps red wolves, which seem to be a wolf-coyote variation.
A young woman was killed by two coyotes while hiking in a provincial park in Nova Scotia several weeks ago, which is unusually aggressive behaviour for coyotes. I think I’ll start carrying a stout stick on my walks.

By: Jim Thomerson

Jim Thomerson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:12:30 +0000

My uncle was federal predator control agent on the Texas-Mexico border. He said that feral domestic dogs were the most difficult to control (kill, and that domestic dog x coyote hybrids were next.

By: Rob Jase

Rob Jase — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:04:48 +0000

I dunno but I’ve seen coyotes here in Connecticut that eat a German Sherpard for lunch.

By: lester

lester — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:04:06 +0000

I live a little ways above the arrow in the last wheel at more or less the indentation in massachusetts there. I was babysitting my sisters kids yesterday morning, at a school playground scarly enough, and one of these wolfotes whatever you want to call them showed up. I apparently said “good god let’s get out of here” but don’t remember doing so. the woman who told us about it called it a wolf and I called it a coyote so yeah, this article seems spot on

By: bioIgnoramus

bioIgnoramus — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:47:10 +0000

I hope they’ll do a follow-up on the hybridisation of bankers and wolves.